The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-30

spared you 10 get DaCk, anu though Gut
old people have gone you have home OF
your own construction, and you often con-
strast those awful absences and flial and
brotherly and lovely heartbreaks with
your present residence, which is the dear.
est place you will find this side of Heaven.
The place where your children were born
is the place where you want to die. To
write the figures Of 1859 set up four
crystals--crystalso of tears. To write the
figures of 1887 stand up four members
and faxen hair, il can get them to stand
still long enough.
Contrast also the religious opportunities
of twenty years ago With now. Often on
on the march from Sunday morn till
night, or commanded by officers who con-
sidered the names of God and Christ OF
no use except to swear by. Sometimes
the drumhead the pulpit, and you stand
ing in heat or cold, all the surroundings
of military life having tendency to make
you reckless. No privacy for prayer or
Bible reading. No sound of church bells.
Sabbath spent far away from the place
where you were brought up. Now the
choicest sanctuaries, easy pew, all Chris
tian surroundings, the air full of God,
and Christ, and Heaven, aud doxoL
ogy. Three mountains lifting them
selves into the holy light-Mouht
Sinai laundering it's law, Mount Calvary
Pleading its sacrifice, Mount Pisgah dis
playing the promised land.
Contrast of National condition: 1862,
spending money by the millions in devas :.
tation of property and life; 1887, the
finances so reconstructed that all the
stock gamblers of Wall street combinet
can not make National panic; ,o65 sur
geons setting broken bones, and ampu-
tating gangrene1 limbs, and studying
gunshot fractures, and inventing easy
ambulances for the wounded and dyin g;
1887, surgeons giving their attention to
those in casualty of agriculture, of COM
MERGE or mechanic al life, the rushing OF
the ambulance through our streets not
suggesting battle, but quick re-
lief of some one fallen in
peaceful industries; 1852. 35-
000, 600 inhabitant, in this lanl 1887, SIS.
000, 600; 1852, wheat about so, 0o0, 900 BUSH
els; 1887, the wheat will be about 500,-
0o0 200 bushels; 1862, Pacific coast FIVE
weeks from the Atlantic; 1887, for three
reasons-Union Pacific, Southern Pacific
Northern Pacific-only seven days across.
Look at the long line of churches, univer-
stiles, asyiums and houses with which
during the last few years this land has
been decorated.
Living soldiers of the North aud South,
take new and special ordination at this
season of the year, to garland the sepul
cheres Of your fallen comrades. Nothing
is too good for their memories. Turn all
the private tombs and the National ceme-
teries into gardens. Ye dead of Malvern
Hill, and Cold Harbor, and Murfrees boro,
and Manassas junction, and Cum berland
Gap, and field hospital, receive these
floral offerings of the living soldiers.
'But they shall come again, all the
dead troops. We sometimes talk about
earthly military reviews, such as took
place in Paris in the time OF Marshal Ney,
in London in the time of Wellington, and
In our own land, but what tame things
compared with the final review, when all
the armies of the ages shall pass for d.
vine and angelic inspection. st. John
says the armies Of Heaven ride on white
horses. and don't know but many of the
old cavalry horses of earthly battle, that
were wound ed and worn out in service,
may have resurrection. 1t would be only
fair that, raised up and ennobled, they
would be resurrected for the grand re.
view Of the Judgment Day. 1t would not
take any more power to reconstruct their
bodies than TO reconstruct ours, and
I should be very glad TO
see them among the white
horses of Apocalyptic vision. Hark to
the trumpet blast, the reveille of the last
Judgment. They come up-all the armie
OF all lands and all centuries, on whic
ever side they fought, whether for free.
dom or despotism, for the right or the
wrong. They comei They comet Darius,
ard Cyrus, and Sennacherib, and Joshua,
and David, leading forth the armies of
Scrip.ural times; Hannibal ami Hamilc
leading forth the Carthagenians; Victor
Emanuel and Garibaldi leading on the
armies of the Italians; Tamerlane and
Ghengis Kahn followed by the armies I
Asia; Gustavus Adolphus, and Ptolemy
Philopater, and Xerxes, and AL.
exander, and Semiramis, and Wash.
ington, leading battalion after bat
talon. The dead American armies OF
1776 and 1912 and 1000, 900 of Northern and
Southern dead in our civil war-they
come up; they pass on in review. The g.
000 900 fallen in Napoleonlc battles; the IL,
0o0, 900 Germans fallen in the Thirty Years.
war; the $1,000, 600 fallen in the war un.
uOl hSOooSohAos huO SO,UoJsOVO ldil6u LII JuG
wars of Justinian: the 25 ZOO, 600 fallen II
Jewish wars; the 80 003, 900 fallen in the
wars with Saracens and Turks; the IS,
000, COZ, 900 estimated to have fallen in ba
tle--enough, according to one statistician,
il they stood four abreast, to reach clear
around the earth 442 times.
But we shall have time to see them pass
in review before the throne of lud gment,
the cavalrymen, the artillerymen, the
spearmen, the infantry. the sharpshooters,
the gunners, the sapp srs, the miners, the
archers, the skirmishers, men of all
colors, OF all epaulets, of all weaponry,
of all countries. Let the earth be es-
pecially balanced to bear their tread.
Forward Forward Let the orchest ira
OF the Heavenly galleries play the grand
march, joined by all the fifers, drummers
and military bands that ever SCUM led
victory or defeat at Kvau or Borobino,
Marathon or Thermopy Lac, Bunker Hill
or yorktown, Solferino or Balaklava,
Sedan or Gettysburg, from the time
when Joshua halted astronomy
above Gibbon and Ajalon till the last
man surrendered to Garnet Wolsely at
Tel-el Kebir. Nations, companies, bat
talions, ages, centuries and the universel
Forward in the grand review of the
Judgment Forward Gracious and
eternal Godi On that day may it be
found that we are all marching in the